Guides
How Bluesky's follow graph, limits and app passwords actually work, written while building a tool that has to respect all three.
- How Bluesky's rate limits actually work The points system behind follows, unfollows and posts on Bluesky, what the numbers are, what happens when you hit them, and how to stay clear.
- How to see who doesn't follow you back on Bluesky Three ways to find the accounts that never followed you back: by hand, with the API, or in one click. Plus what to do with the answer.
- App passwords and "Sign in with Bluesky", explained What an app password is, why third-party tools ask for one, how OAuth is replacing them, and how to revoke access in ten seconds.
- How to clean up who you follow (without wrecking your feed) A practical order of operations for pruning a Bluesky following list, what to cut, what to keep, and the mistakes that cost you reach.
- Bluesky's follow graph is public: what that means for you On the AT Protocol your follows are open data, readable by anyone without a login. Here's what that enables, what it exposes, and how starter packs and feeds change the picture.
- How to spot bot and spam accounts on Bluesky The signals that actually separate a bot from a quiet human, why most "bot detectors" are wrong, and what to do with the ones you find.
- How Bluesky feeds work, and why your following list is your timeline The difference between the Following feed, custom feeds and the Discover feed, who decides what you see, and why a stale following list costs you more here than elsewhere.
- How to grow on Bluesky without follow-for-follow Why the reciprocity habit imported from other networks backfires here, what actually compounds, and how to prune without looking like a follow farm.